tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post8913375910715975463..comments2024-01-30T04:15:42.071-05:00Comments on British Tars, 1740-1790: 'HMS' and 'USS': Not a Thing?Kyle Daltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13428848890576823316noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post-15732241176025750302017-07-14T13:45:02.723-04:002017-07-14T13:45:02.723-04:00I agree with your opinion and must say that the de...I agree with your opinion and must say that the detailed information about it that you have shared here, will make me able to understand well.<br />Emma Charlotte | <a href="https://www.theacademicpapers.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">TheAcademicPapers.co.uk</a>Emma Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009811970338007852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post-10704033819775734582017-07-14T11:31:17.957-04:002017-07-14T11:31:17.957-04:00Looking at Google's NGram tool, which is based...Looking at Google's NGram tool, which is based on books scanned for their online access project, it's pretty clear that both terms only came into broad usage in the late 19th century, at the earliest. This technology is deeply imperfect, being based on uncorrected OCR, but I have found it useful for determining when terms enter the written language on many projects.<br /><br />https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=HMS%2CUSS&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CHMS%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CUSS%3B%2Cc0Lars D. H. Hedborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943440398890692578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post-45134238680192622252017-07-14T08:25:46.086-04:002017-07-14T08:25:46.086-04:00Can verify for 1680-1740 British documents that th...Can verify for 1680-1740 British documents that there are tons of instances of spelling out "His Majesties Navy" or "Her Majesties Navy", but they never did the abbreviation. Then again, I do not recollect them using abbreviations like that in documents much at all. Sure, there are the shortened versions of words like Mr for Mister and yr for your and so on, but outright acronyms with each letter representing a whole word don't seem common at all, at least not in the maritime documents realm.DavidF.Historianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06859934735829958043noreply@blogger.com